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title: "Back/Forward Dropdown Menus - an Extension for Firefox"
date: 2005-08-03 02:00
modified: 2008-01-30 16:19
status: published
description: >
  An Extension for Firefox that turns the entire Back and Forward buttons into dropdown menus.

tags: Firefox, extensions, add-ons, downloads

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<p>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1050/" title="(Mozilla Addons)">Back/Forward Dropdown Menus</a> is another little CSS hack created <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1041/comments/">by request of BobFox</a>. It removes the main Back and Forward buttons and styles their dropdown arrows to look like them. The net effect is that clicking the Back or Forward button shows a history list rather than navigating immediately.
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<p><ins datetime="2008-01-30T16:19Z">This add-on is no longer being updated (by me)—there won't be an update compatible with Firefox 3 (or later versions).</ins>
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<p>
It's not a good idea to use this extension with <a href="/dropdownremover">Back/Forward Dropdown Remover</a>; combined, they <span title="Damn cool word.">annihilate</span> all of the buttons' useful parts.
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<p>
Known issue in version 0.1: the buttons' tooltips still include <q>one page</q>.
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